I hope that backlog can be reigned in on the 620/12 FG soon! Sorry, just excited about getting my new guitar.

Ben:

When Rickenbacker finally catches up with the backlog, will we be able to order guitars with three pickups -- 370--again???

Thanks, Karl

P.S. And, do you have any GUESS as to when that might be?

Thanks John for the info. I can personally say that while both Geddy and Chris Squire (+ Stanley, Victor and a plethora of others) have influenced my playing, it had nothing to do with my choosing to purchase one. First it was the name Rickenbacker when I was shopping, then it was the sound when I tried it, and how comfortable it was. I have a few other brands of guitars, but the RIC is my fave bar none for those reasons.

You'll have to ask the king about that one but Ben is doing his best wrangling to rein things in.

Has Rickenbacker hired any of the 20 year veterans that other companies have laid off?

I actually started digging Geddy Lee and Chris Squire after I was already pining for a Rickenbacker bass.

The two players who most made me notice Ric basses are kind of an odd pairing... Paul McCartney and Cliff Burton.

But I think I would have become inevitably attracted to the 4000 series anyway. Before I even started playing bass, when I was about 11 or 12 (on a Boy Scout trip to Yellowstone, during which we stopped at Jackson Hole), I went into a guitar store with some friends, and there was a Rickenbacker 4003 on a stand in a corner. I stood transfixed for a moment, just looking at it. A year later, I started playing bass.

As if you could'nt guess from my username (& my avatar on other RIC forums), I am a Geddy fan - however, the reasons I chose JetGlo were because black goes with anything, and RIC was not building 4003s in white or BurgundyGlo when I bought mine. I also dig the fact that my 4003 is sort of a "transitional model": it has the older non full width triangle inlay shapes, made from the new inlay material.
P.S. Ben, Thank You and everyone at Rickenbacker so much for providing great customer service and for going above & beyond with my new MapleGlo 4004Cii!

I am absolutely certain, that this would be true, if Rickenbacker could produce that many guitars and basses. With more marketing and a better distribution in Europe, a lot more Rickenbacker guitars could be sold over here - and the same is true for Asia and Australia, I think.

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"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture." (Elvis Costello)

And I find that highly commendable.

It has absolutely nothing to do with marketing and distribution- we already have GREAT people in place (except for Australia). This problem is strictly one of production; we simply can't give our distribution partners the number of instruments they can sell, so as a result, they have to make their living with other products.